Join parents of first-grader Kaleb for a hands-on workshop to create your own pair of silver-band rings. Spend 2 to 3 hours with this professional metalsmith couple--David Casella (D.A.C.-METALS) and Aimee Golant--to design and make your own unique couple keepsakes.

David Casella creates his own jewelry and metal work designs for a variety of venues through his studio, D.A.C-METALS. He works on private commissions, participates in selected juried shows, does contract work, and has had his work shown in Bay Area galleries. He is currently showing at YJM Gallery in Berkeley. David’s past employment has included working at a coppersmith studio for eight years where he became lead production manager. He also worked on custom steel fabrication and consulting for Eric Powell designs. David is currently teaching at The Academy of Art, Scintillant Studio, and The Crucible where he has helped develop the jewelry department, proposed classes and workshops since 2000. He also has been an active member of the Metal Arts Guild of the Bay Area teaching workshops and participating in juried exhibitions. David Casella earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art with an emphasis in metalsmithing and jewelry design in 1996.

Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis, Aimee Golant is an interfaith advocate, a sixth-generation metal artist, and a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, originally from Los Angeles, California. Upon her graduation from San Francisco State University, she began her career as a metal artist creating Judaica and jewelry. She exhibits and sells her unique metal art internationally. She has won many honors, including: being voted “Best Jewish Artisan Craftsperson in San Francisco” since 2010 from the readers of the J. Jewish News Weekly; the Jewish Museum of New York's acquisition of one of her evocative mezuzahs for its permanent collection; she created the mezuzah for the front entrance of the National Museum of American Jewish History; her Barbed Wire Mezuzah travelled into space on the Columbia Space Shuttle and on the Space Shuttle Atlantis; a NICHE Award for her Bars and Windows Menorah; and the Golden Hammer Award for her outstanding community service through the San Francisco Bay Area Metal Arts Guild. She has created the crown for the Women's Torah Project, one of the first documented Torahs scribed by a community of women from around the world.